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4/27/2015 2:40PM

Obama: If We Don’t Write Trade Rules, China Will

President Obama, in an interview with WSJ’s Jerry Seib, made his case for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership warning that if the U.S. doesn’t enact a free-trade deal with Asia, then China will write the rules in that region. Photo: T.J. Kirkpatrick for The Wall Street Journal

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so make that case to the average ... working class America about why the Trans Pacific Partnership ... a trade deal is good for them what's the what's your ... garden as number one ... that's the biggest market the world number two is ... both countries were artists on such ... a coupon for another lot of Japanese cars are in the States ... almost all U S cars in Tokyo ... number three ... is that ... if we don't ... write the rules China will write the rules of the region ... we will be shut out American businesses American agriculture ... that will mean a loss of US jobs number for export to us to reap a better ... than the last one I would think ... it is that ... when you look at ... some of the provisions were negotiating ... in TPP ... we are raising the standards ... in many countries ... in places like Malaysia ... or Vietnam ... in ways that directly help workers are ... directly help me and for ... directly go after some of the ... trends that are ... causing climate change and if your progress if ... you want higher